Word Meanings - INSTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort
Additional info about word: INSTANT
upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. Carlyle. 2. Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. Impending death is thine, and instant doom. Prior. 3. Present; current. The instant time is always the fittest time. Fuller. Note: The word in this sense is now used only in dates, to indicate the current month; as, the tenth of July instant.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSTANT)
- Immediate
- Proximate
- contiguous
- present
- direct
- instant
- next
- Moment
- Instant
- second
- importance
- twinkling
- trice
- weight
- force
- gravity
- consequence
- avail
- Trice
- Twinkling
- flash
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INSTANT)
Related words: (words related to INSTANT)
- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - AVAILABLENESS
1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale. - INSTANT
upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - PRESENTANEOUS
Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey. - MOMENTARILY
Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone. - PRESENTLY
1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - TRICENTENARY
Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n. - TWINKLE
1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when - DIRECT NOMINATION
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates - DIRECTRIX
1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating - PROXIMATELY
In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately. - AVAIL
1. To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton. 2. To promote; to assist. Pope. To avail one's - WEIGHTINESS
The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness. - WEIGHTILY
In a weighty manner. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - FRICATRICE
A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - FRATRICELLI
The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - WELTERWEIGHT
1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that - NONPRESENTATION
Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented.